HP Elitebook 8570W - is it still good ? Hardware modifications

[K4sum1]

I think at some point there was a whitelist of sorts, but HP removed it in a later BIOS. I had no issues upgrading my GPU and WiFi card.

[Daedalus]

1 hour ago, K4sum1 said:

I think at some point there was a whitelist of sorts, but HP removed it in a later BIOS. I had no issues upgrading my GPU and WiFi card.

i have the final .71ver on my machine, looking at the bios release notes on HP.com, it doesnt call out an whitelist being present, that said some had issues (there was alot of chatter on older forums on it). There was a Coreboot bios floating around 8770W only (however 8570 and 8770W share same .71 version, no O/C option in the .71 bios release for CPU or RAM.....which is a shame. 

I tried (and failed) a GTX 965M upgrade, might have been a duff card. However now working on my 980M upgrade.
No issue going from 62205 to a 7260HMW, just plug an play in win10.